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 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ui;

/**
 * The primary interface between a view part and the workbench.
 * <p>
 * The workbench exposes its implemention of view part sites via this interface,
 * which is not intended to be implemented or extended by clients.
 * </p>
 * @since 1.0
 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
 */
public interface IViewSite extends IWorkbenchPartSite {

    /**
     * Returns the action bars for this part site.
     * Views have exclusive use of their site's action bars.
     *
     * @return the action bars
     */
    public IActionBars getActionBars();

	/**
	 * Returns the secondary id for this part site's part, or <code>null</code>
	 * if it has none.
	 * 
	 * @return the secondary id for this part site's part or <code>null</code>
	 *         if it has none
	 * @see IWorkbenchPage#showView(String, String, int)
     */
    public String getSecondaryId();
}
